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SubjectRe: [PATCH] refcount: restore kref_get and kref_put to non-GPL status
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On 03/08/2017 01:50 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:25:49AM -0800, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
>> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
>>
>> Originally, kref_get and kref_put were available as
>> standard routines that even non-GPL device drivers
>> could use.
>
> As I stated in my response to the 0/1 of this patch, this sentence is
> not true, sorry, the inlined functions were GPL-v2-only.

OK, got it. I overlooked that point.

thanks
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

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